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Alexandre Mikhailovich Besredka
[[Serology]] ====Biography==== Alexandre Mikhailovich Besredka was the son of a professor of foreign . . . for doctor of medicine, Paris, 1897. * Les endotoxines bacteriennes. Paris, 1914 * Anaphylaxie et . . .
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Alternate Complement Pathway
[[Serology]] ====See Also==== * [[Collectins]] * [[Complement System]] ====Description==== The complement . . . inulin, bacterial polysaccharides and endotoxins, [[IgG]]4, [[IgA]] and [[IgE]]. Thus the alternative . . . immunoglobulins to diverse elements -endotoxins, Candida, IgG4 mediated complexes (allergens . . .
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Antibody
[[Serology]] ====Definition==== Also known as [[immunoglobulins]] (Ig), antibodies are specialized proteins . . . binding to foreign proteins, microorganisms or toxins in order to neutralize them. They are a critical . . .
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Carcinogen
[[Pathology]] ====See Also==== * [[Mutation]] * [[Oxidative stress]] * [[Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons . . . biological processes. Usually cells bracken. Aflatoxin B1, which is produced by the fungus Aspergillus . . .
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Complement System
[[Immunology]] ====See Also==== * [[Collectin]] * [[Opsonization]] * [[Mannan-binding lectin (MBL)]] . . . the most well-defined fragments belong anaphylatoxins. Anaphylatoxins are proteolytic products of . . . biological activity. The production of anaphylatoxins follows not only from complement activation, . . . enzymes, and bacterial proteases. The anaphylatoxins have powerful effects on blood vessel walls, . . . which is extensively activated by endotoxin. The large quantities of C3a and C5a which result . . .
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E. Coli Infection and ABO Blood Groups
[[Polymorphism]] ====See Also==== * [[Adhesins]] * [http://www.dadamo.com/lecster2/Lecster-read.pl?show=224 . . . strains of E.coli are toxigenic (some produce a toxin very similar to that seen in dysentery) and can . . . harbor both heat-stable and heat-labile enterotoxins. The latter, termed LT, is highly similar in . . . structure and function to Cholera toxin. It contains one 'A' subunit and five 'B' subunits . . . arranged into one holotoxin. The B subunits assist in adherence and entry . . .
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Endothelin
[[Physiology]] ====See Also==== * [[Kell Blood Group]] * [[Nitric Oxide]] * [[Prostacyclin]] ====Description==== . . . was isolated from the Israeli Borrowing Asp in a toxin called sarafotoxin. In a healthy individual a . . .
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Glucuronic acid
[[Glycomics]] ====See Also==== * [[Glycoconjugates]] * [[Xenobiotics]] ====Description==== Glucuronic . . . in the liver of all animals. The linking of toxins to glucuronic acid is catalyzed by the enzyme . . . process, breaking apart the bound toxins. Calcium D-glucarate (a calcium salt that is . . .
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Glycoproteins
[[Glycomics]] ====See Also==== * [[Glycoconjugates]] * [[Carbohydrate]] * [[Carbohydrates as Biological . . . to be targets for recognition by pathogenic toxins and microorganisms.({{Varki A, Cummings, E. . . .
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Hapten
[[Immunology]] ====See Also==== * [[Epitope]] * [[Antigen]] ====Description==== A compound, usually of . . . example of a hapten is urushiol, which is the toxin found in poison ivy. When absorbed through the . . .
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Helicobacter pylori infection, ABO and secretor blood groups
[[Pathology]] ====See Also==== * [[ABH Antigens]] * [[Adhesins]] * [[Cell Adhesion Molecules (CAMs)]] . . . H. pylori appears to be independent of BabA, cytotoxin-associated gene A, or vacuolating cytotoxin.({{Rad . . . of the bacteria (presence of genes encoding cytotoxin-associated Ag, vacuolating cytotoxin, and blood . . .
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Kupffer cell
[[Immunology]] ====See Also==== * [[Alternate Complement Pathway]] * [[Cytokines]] * [[Endotoxin]] * . . . <i>Model of the association between endotoxin release, Kupffer cell activation, and liver injury. . . . Following chronic alcohol ingestion, [[endotoxin]] released from certain intestinal bacteria moves . . . bloodstream and into the liver. There the endotoxin activates Kupffer cells—a type of immune cell . . . Source] ====Links with endotoxin==== One substance that can effectively activate . . .
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Paul Ehrlich
[[Immunology]] ====See Also==== * [[Lectins]] * [[Boyd's Report of Lectin Specificity]] ====Biographic . . . with them rather than the then-popular bacterial toxins. Ehrlich discovered that feeding small amounts . . . of the discipline of immunology. Since the toxins are much less toxic when given by mouth than . . .
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Ricin
[[Lectinology]] ====Description==== The protein ricin is a toxin from the castor bean (Ricinus communis). . . .
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Sialogens
[[Glycomics]] ====See Also==== * [[E. Coli Infection and ABO Blood Groups]] * [[Mucin]] * [[Alternate . . . Newborn mucus also was found to bind cholera toxin much more effectively than adult mucus, perhaps . . .
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Thomsen-Friedenreich (T-Tn) antigen
[[Serology]] ====See Also==== * [[Mucin]] * [[Galectin 3, hGal-3]] * [[Neo-Springerism]] ====Description==== . . . antigens and "naturally" occurring human cytotoxins against them. Cancer 1976 Jan;37(1):169-76 ====Stomach . . .
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Toxin
[[Biochemistry]] ====See Also==== * [[Hapten]] * [[Endotoxin]] ====Description==== A toxin (Gk. toxikon . . . substance produced by living cells or organisms. Toxins are nearly always proteins that are capable . . . such as enzymes or cellular receptors. Toxins vary greatly in their severity, ranging from . . . to almost immediately deadly (as in botulinum toxin). Biotoxins vary greatly in purpose and mechanism, . . . or relatively small protein. ====Use==== Biotoxins are used in nature for two primary reasons: . . .
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